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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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Stone products of the Roman municipium of Neviodunum, Pannonia (modern Drnovo, Slovenia)
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 284-312, April 2025.Abstract The paper presents the lithologies used in the stone products of Neviodunum (modern Drnovo in Slovenia), a Roman municipium in south‐western Pannonia. For this purpose, 95 stone monuments were assessed. Petrographic and biostratigraphic analyses were carried out on 56 archaeological and 57 geological samples.
Katharina Zanier +3 more
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Domitian and the Roman economy: some notes
RUDN Journal of World HistoryA comprehensive assessment of the state of the Roman economy during the reign of Emperor Domitian is difficult due to the unsatisfactory state of the sources, therefore it is necessary to proceed from the available information.
Victor N. Parfyonov
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Gerión, 2014 The study analyzes the career of clarissimus L. Cossonius Gallus developed between Domitian, Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian. In particular, we analyze the charges under Trajan, including, in 111 AD, the proconsul of Sardinia. In the same year the proconsul L.
Attilio Mastino, Raimondo Zucca
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 26-49, February 2025.This article takes Bede's account of the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria as a case study in the mechanics and function of narrative. It is now recognized that Bede's sources for his Ecclesiastical History were very limited and that in composing it he relied upon his own deductions as a historian and upon his narrative skill to provide ...
Catherine Cubitt
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THE FLAVIAN DYNASTY AND THE ROMAN LAND CADASTER
RUDN Journal of World History, 2014 The Flavian dynasty had systematically affected all the standards of the Augustus’. Guided by special “law of land pieces” - ius subsecivorum , which was developed by Augustus, Vespasian organized in Italy a large-scaled census of territories.
I A Gvozdeva
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The Poetic Structure of Silius Italicus' Punica (Books I-V)
Classica Cracoviensia, 2019 Poetic Structure of Silius Italicus' Punica (Books I-V) As concerns their poetic structure, the first five books of Silius’ Punica are very differentiated and complicated.
Stanisław Śnieżewski
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 474-502, November 2024.This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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